No Signals Detected From Interstellar Visitor

'Oumuamua is Hawaiian for "messenger for afar"—but the only message researchers are getting from our first known visitor from another solar system so far is "I am an inanimate rock." 

The Breakthrough Listen project says its first search for artificial signals emanating from the strange object detected no signs of alien technology, but it still has plenty of data to analyze from the first block of observations by the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia and there are three more to go, Space.com reports. 

'Oumuamua, which has been hurtling through our solar system for months, is believed to be an asteroid, though its elongated cigar shape is odd enough for researchers to say there is a small chance it could be an alien spacecraft.

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